The New York Herald Newspaper, May 7, 1874, Page 6

‘NEW YORK HERALD BROADWAY AND ANN STRE! JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR. ‘THE DAILY HERALD, pudlished every day in the year. Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price $12. Rejected communications will not be re- turned, Stel Cee CN LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERAED—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ; Volume XXXIX. AMUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING BROADWAY THEATER: Washin ington E, place.—HUMPTY pantry’ Par Boat &e,, at8 ; Closes at LP, M, Sixth, une o T ty aed ret SPAR, avenue, corner of Twenty- - TACUS at 8PM closes at 105 1. Mr. John MeCullough. METROPOLITAN THEATRE No. 58 Broadway. ya ENTERTAINMENT, at 75 P.M. ; closes at 10:30 LYCEUM THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Sixth avenue.—THE SCHOOL FOR GARD AL atsP.M.; closes atll P.M Miss June Coombs, road hie sirese AURORA FLOYD, rv of Th treet LA Spates ARTING, at 8 P.M.? closes at 1U0 P. ag Sophie Mites Mites. Marictta Ravel. PARK THEATRE, Broadway and Twenty-second siree.—LOVE'S PEN- ANCE, “ava. M.; closes at 1 P.M. Charles Fechter. GERMANIA THEATRE, Fourteenth street, near Irving piace. —PARISER LEBER, at oP. M.; closes at li P.M. NEW PARK THEATRE, BROOKLYN, = OR, WHOSE WIPE? at 8 P. M. ray. DALY'S FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, ‘Twenty-eighth street and” Broadway. -qlOnsTBOR ALPHONSE, at8 0. M.; closes at 10:30 Misa Ada ares, Mie Ld Faony Davenport, Bijou Heron, Mr. Fisher, r. Clark. THEATRE COMI he No. 514 Broadwa; ee ENTSREAINMENT, at8 P. M. , closes at 10 20 P. WALLACK’S THEATRE, Broadway and Thirteenth street.—SCHOOL, at 8 P. M.; closes at 11 P.M, Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jetireys Lewis. aes. yo ot gg BROOKLYN THEATRE, near Fulton street, Brooklyn.— CULLOGH, ats P.M. Mr. Oliver Doud byron. OLYMPIC THEATR! Broadway. between Houston and Bleecker strecta,— VRUDEVILES and NUVELTY ENTERTAINMENT, at 3:46 P.M. ; closes at 10:45 P. M. ‘Washiny BEN MU ‘ADT THEATRE, Bowery. ROBERT? THE DEVIL, at 8 P. M.; + Closes at 11 ina di Murska. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUS! Foz 201 Bowery. ee pad ENTERTPAINME! at 2:30 3 closes “at 5:30 P. M,; aleo at 8 P. M ; closes at li PERA HOUSE, ‘ixth avenue. ramen. MIN- loses at 10 P.M. Twenty-third str me STRELSY, nee STEINWAY HALL, Fourteenth, street —Miss Neilson's Reading, at 8 P. M.; loses at 9:00 P.M. ROBINSON HALI ixteenth street.—ART ENTERTALN. COLOSSEUM, (ENT, at 8 P. M, Recsewas, o° corner of Thirty-fiith street.—LONDON IN ‘13% oy ‘M.; closes at5 P.M. Same at7 P. M.; closes ator. Mm ROMAN HIPPODROME, Patton, gjvenue and Twen ae COneaES OF S ‘TRIPLE SHEET. Wew York, Thursday, -sixth ‘street.—GRAND TIONS, at 1 30 P. M. and May 7, 1874, are that the weather to-day will be generally clear. A Quesrion—What is the nature of the bill “for the relief of T. C. Callicott, lato ‘Treasury Agent at Charleston, South Caro- lina,” which has just been introduced into the House? Tue Ancument or THE Prror Comnmsstoy- as of New York against the bill proposed by Benator Hamlin, which we print this morn- ing, is conclusive on a subject of very great Interest to the metropolis. Owe Resvut of the agricultural lockout in England is the emigration of an unusual num- ber of agricultural laborers to the United States and Canada. How long can England wetain her strength if this process of dis- manning continues? A New Lecax Porst.—A recent decision in the English courts is to the effect that any libellous statement which would be privileged in a private letter would not be privileged in a telegram. The delivery of such a statement to a clerk is regarded as a publication in the eyes of English law. Movzst Vator.—The wonder that has been expressed at the meagreness of the honors conferred upon Sir Garnet Wolseley tor his successes in the Ashantee expedition is ex- plained in the recent speech of Mr. Disraeli proposing a grant to him of $125,000. The Queen proposed to give him a peerage, with money enough to support the rank. But Sir Garnet declined, as he was already heir to two ‘baronetcies, and he wished no honor that was aot strictly professional. Tae New Wonven—A bill to ‘provide for the completion of the Washington National Monument’’ has been introduced into the House. This monument should either be taken down or finished. It has already been in process of erection for one generation, and ‘we presume the second centennial of the Repub- lic, in 1976, will witness another step or two towards its completion. However, these mon- uments will stand a great deal of building. Coup Comrort.—-Dr. Edward Vanderpoel fears that the undertakers of the city, in their haste to pack bodies in ice, sometimes put into the box and freeze to death persons who are | only in a condition of suspended animation. | ‘This is hard upon the doctors, who probably in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of | @ thousand have pronounced life extinct before the undertaker’s work commences. Between ice-freezers and incinerating ovens dying persons can nowadays enjoy but little peace of mind. Pastonat Potrrics.—We note that what is called the ‘Advisory Committee of the Ili- | nois Farmers’ Association’ proposes to call a Yarmers’ Convention for June 10, This date is two days previous to the meeting of the Re- publican Convention. We do not know what the farmers mean to do, but we have little confidence in their agricultural proclivitics. ‘TLe real farmer has something else to do than to hang around a political caucus, When the truth is known it will be found that the farmers are politicians with bay seed in their clothes, who use the farmer's name as a pre- text for power. Miss ada | Manhattan Club To-Night—The Arts tocracy of Democratic Pelitics. The festivities sppointed to take place |. at the Manhattan Club this evening are understood to have more political than social significance. We know, as yet, toolittle of their purpose to justify comment, but enough to pique curiosity and provoke conjecture. Since the unfortunate campaign of 1872 the prosperity of the Manhattan Club, like that of the democratic party, has been at a low ebb. Its finances went gradually into a state of dilapidation, and had it not been for the new hopes inspired by the democratic successes last autumn the property of the club would, ere this, have been sold, the organization dis- solved and its affairs wound up. Even with the life given to party hopes by last fall’s elec- tions it has been no easy task to overcome the torpor and indifference of many of its in- fiuential members. It has required all the persistent energy of a resolute, indomitable mi- nority, inspired by the recent democratic suc- cesses in New Hampshire and Connecticut, to put the Manhattan Club again well on its legs. The banqueting and speechmaking to- night—“ the feast of reason and the flow of soul’ which the members promise them- selves and their invited guesta—are intended to celebrate, first of all, the rehabilitation of the club itself, and, secondly, the revival and reinvigoration of democratic hopes and efforts. As a mere social organization the Manhattan Club has not now and never had any sufficient standing place in New York life. The purely social needs of its most respectable members are adequately met by the facilities of intercourse afforded by the other and older clubs of which they are members. The Manhattan Club was founded as a political counterpoise to the Union League Club, which was formed at an early stage of the war for the purpose of arraying wealth and social influence as a strong auxiliary support to the republican party. The democrats of the city have their fair share of social standing and distinction and pleasant convivial talents, and their oppo- nents taught them the utility of bringing these advantages to bear as an organized | political force for the promotion of party objects. The reinvigoration of the Man- | hattan Club, therefore, at this time, after a@ period of torpor and comparative pros- tration, is an event of which all observing politicians will take note as a sign of the times. It, indeed, proves little beyond a re- vival of democratic courage and hopefulness and a determination of the party leaders to marshal their forces anew for the great campaign of 1876. It does not prove that the revived hopes are. well grounded, but only that the democratic magnates have come once more to have sufficient faith in the future to attempt another great battle. When we shall have had an opportunity to read the speeches that will be made this evening we shall be better qualified to judge of the firmness of the props with which the leaders of the democ- racy are attempting to shore up the old edifice. But for the present their super- abounding faith, like that of the great apostle, is ‘the evidence of things not seen,”’ and, therefore, wonderfully orthodox and Bib- lical. But on the supposition that they have any “pillar and ground truth’’ to support their hopes, they are certainly managing well in bringing the Manhattan Club into new con- spicnousness as a great radiating focus of de- mocracy. In the present posture of their affairs it is of the utmost consequence to them to invest the Manhattan Club with all possible prestige. Among the few things which may be counted upon with certainty in the politics of this State is the renomination of Governor Dix by the republicans. Governor Dix is not only one of the oldest and most trusted of our citizens, but he isa gentleman of the most eminent social respectability, for whom thou- sands in this city who value that kind of dis- tinction will incline to vote without much re- gard to party lines. Inasmuch as the vote of this city will decide the election, the strong hold of Governor Dix on our wealthy and culti- vated classes is a factor which the demo- cratic politicians cannot afford to leave out of their calculations, Although the social influence of the republicans is organized in the Union League Club, it really needs no organization to make it effi- cient, with such a candidate as General Dix. The Union League Club might be dissolved to-morrow, and yet General Dix would none the less receive every republican vote which is in any degree influenced by considerations of social caste. The danger to the democrats is that he will take away a portion of their votes by their spontaneous preference for a citizen of such high and long recognized standing. The democracy, therefore, are under a strong necessity of organizing their social influence for counteractive purposes. The necessity is greater in consequence of the odium and obloquy brought upon the party by the old Tammany chiefs, who were politically able, but not socially respectable. The remem- brance of the Tammany frauds and ignominy still causes many self-respecting people to stand aloof from the democratic party who would otherwise be rather attracted than re- pelled by its principles. It is important for the party to wipe out, if possible, what re- mains of the Tammany stain, and to secom- plish this here and throughout the country it must be made not merely evident, but con- spicuous, that men of wealth, standing, influ- | ence and wide social connections have not re- tired in apathy or disgust from the democratic | organization. It must be seen that their } connection with it is as active, zeal- }ous and prominent as it was in | the bright and palmy days when men who | valued a pure reputation were not abashed, | but proud, to be known as democrats. Had the Manhattan Club been allowed to sink into insignificance it would be generally inter- preted as a desertion of the democratic party by the only class who can restore it to respect- ability and public esteem. The meeting at the Manhattan Club this evening, which its | organ tells us will be “brilliant,” is, there- | fore, a judicious stroke of party tactics. It is of vital concern to the democratic | party to carry New York next fall and to main- | tain a steady supremacy in the State for the | next two years. All its hopes of electing the next President are staked upon this chance. It is requisite for giving strength and stability to the party in other States, and for imposing the confidence without which there can be no concerted, energetic efforts. It is also neces- sary a8 a condition of raising election funds Gael inte 3 “HERALD, ‘THURSDAY, MAY 7 Everything is staked, therefore, on the possi- bility of carrying the New York election this year, and thereby giving the party the pres- tige and influence of a democratic Governor in office during the campaign of 1876, The democratic leaders are sagacious enough to understand that General Dix, the inev- itable candidate of the republicans, will be no easy man to beat, They perceive that in bringing out o candidate they must guard against two principal sources of weakness— first, the lingering anti-Tammany feeling, which has been such a damaging obstraction ; and, secondly, the fresh popularity which Governor Dix has acquired by his admirable message to the Legislature remonstrating against inflation, They will probably try to find a candidate who combines in the highest degree an unimpeachable and aggressive hos- tility to the old ring, when it was fighting for its life with thoroughgoing soundness of financial views. There are, doubtless, men in the party who think they combine these indis- pensable requisites ; but whether the people of the State will recognize the claim is quite another question. Certain it is that no can- didate whose very name is not a guarantee on these cardinal points has any chance of competing successfully with General Dix. Such a candidate for Governor, if the demo- cratic party can find and elect him, will have the fairest chance for the Presidential nomi- tion in 1876. He would go into the National Convention with the thirty-five votes of this State, and the assured certainty that they would be cast for him throughout, His friends would say that he could certainly carry New York against any republican candidate after defeating the most popular republican in the State for Governor, and that New York is too important a State to be put in any jeopardy. They would also say with truth that the money needed for election expenses, which must in any event be mostly supplied by New York, could be raised more easily and in more adequate amounts to promote the elec- tion of a citizen of the State. These being the democratic views of the situation, it will be readily conceded that the meeting at the Manhattan Club this evening is well worth watching until it shall appear whether the hopes by which it is inspired have any good foundation. It may be thought that making social ro- spectability organized in a club a chief ful- crum of politics is not very democratic. But the democratic party, with all its pro- fessions of equality, has never been anything but an aristocracy of political leaders. There ‘was never a time when its action in this State was not controlled by fewer than a dozen men. The Van Burens, Wrights, Marcys, Flaggs, Croswells, Richmonds and other noted managers never fora day, except with their mere lips, recognized the political equality of men. If all citizens controlled merely one vote they would be politically equal. But a man who can control no vote but his own was not born toshine in politics. The wealth, talents, connections and capacity for intrigue and combination by which party movements are directed make their possessors a veritable political aristocracy, and by such an aristoc- racy the democratic party has always been led, from the days of Jefferson down, as much so in this State as in old democratic Virginia, when her politics were in the hands of her F. F. V.’s. Wanted, = Police Commissioner. The politicians on both sides of the fence are sorely exercised over Mr. Havemeyer’s procrastination in the matter of the appoint- ment of a Police Commissioner to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Henry Smith. When the Board of Aldermen had the confirming power the ripe and humorous Mayor sent to the Board the names first of Mr. Andrews and next of ex-Judge Howland. The former declined the office—the Aldermen de- clined to confirm the second nominee, Mr. Havemeyer now has the privilege of making the appointment of his own will, and he mys- teriously holds back and leaves the vacant Police Commissionership unfilled. The re- publicans of the Custom House stamp believed that he could not avoid appointing Judge Howland. The republicans of the Weed stripe are said to desire the appointment of Alderman Morris, a much more competent man. The Tammany Kellyite democrats ask the Mayor to put one of their own number in the place. The opposition democracy are striving hard to win Executive favor for a democratic rebel. Meanwhile the venerable Mayor wipes his spectacles, chuckles and ad- mits that he ‘‘can’t see his way clearly just yet,” and, with an amiable smile on his coun- tenance, suggests that ‘‘there’s plenty of time yet, and the Police Commission seems to get along very well as it is.’ What is to be the result nobody knows, but it is certain that Mr. Havemeyer sees a chance for a good “trick” in the important card he holds in his hand. Now raat the Convention of Roman Catho- lic Archbishops is in session in Cincinnati re- arranging the dioceses in the United States, would it not be well to consider also the ques- tion of the appointment of an American cardi- nal? Why is it that the Pope has never con- ferred the scarlet hat upon an American prelate? We have many Catholic divines of eminent virtue and piety. The Catholic Church in America is one of the most obe- dient flocks under the care of the Pope. Ifo cardinal is of any use at all he is of as much use in America as in Englandor France. The Holy Father, to please Napoleon, appointed a young cousin of the Emperor to be cardinal. Yet to please the Church in America he will not honor one of its learned and revered prelates. Is ho afraid that there may be a Yankee Pope in time? These are questions that it would be well for the Roman Catholic Convention in Cincinnati to consider, A Temperance Trivmen.—The women of Hannibal, Mo., have won ao great victory. Tuesday was election day, and the ladies stood by the polls all day long. License or no license was the question. The presence of the ladies decided the question. No license was carried, two to one. The fact deserves notice and the example ought not to be lost Kansas. The escape of the two Judges of the Su- preme Court of Arkansas, Searle and Bennett, and the subsequent sitting of the Court, have given 8 new phase to the contest of the rival Governors. Our despatches this morning, especially the communication of the Judges to the Henaup, leave it no longer doubtful that the Judges were captured, if not by Baxter's orders, at least by partisans acting under his authority. This is in itself an ugly fact, indicative of the demoralization which has overtaken all parties in the reconstructed States, It is worse than usurpation under color of an election, for no crime can be so great as an attempt to destroy the judicial authority in a State. We can scarcely credit the essertion that Barter is responsible for an ‘intimation conveyed to Lieutenant Somerhill that it would be well to get the Judges out of the way; but that officer, acting under Baxter's orders, received such an inti- mation, and at once showed his detestation of it by helping the prisoners to their liberty. A State ruled by a Governor capable of giving such an order must be in a pitiable condition, even though his right to rule was undisputed. Still, if Baxter is legally Governor of the State he must not be set aside in Brooks’ favor because such charges are made against him; but his punishment should come by the regular method of impeachment. Un- fortunately, at this very point and in the heat and excitement of these alleged outrages the very Judges who believe that he outraged them and the judicial authority of the State are called upon to settle the ques- tion as to whether he or Brooks is the real Governor of Arkansas. A case has been made to test the validity of Brooks’ acts as Governor, but Judges Searle and Bennett are scarcely in a frame of mind to determine it dispassion- ately upon its merits. What its real merits are we presume will not very clearly appear, even after Baxter's counsel have been heard. Neither of the claimants has a record so clear that he who runs may read. Besides, it is not to be expected thatany decision which the Court may give will finally determine the issue, Both these partisans are desperate and will yield to nothing but force. Any other action on the part of either would be a pleasant sur- prise, but all the indications are that anarchy will continue until the federal power is suc- cessfully invoked to extinguish it. The con- dition of Arkansas is another monstrosity, but the President cannot fail to see that the most effective way to nurse it is to let it alone. It is a disease which will not work out its own cure. Like the man in the Scriptures, out of whom the seven devils were cast, but who afterwards yielded to the sway of seven other devils, the people of Arkansas only escape from one evil to find the evil that follows put them in a worse state than they were before. Anarchy, outrage and bloodshed at present seem the only outlook for this afflicted people. The Courts may decide, but will the Governors, or either of them, obey? The contest is a disgraceful one in every respect, but a state of actual war must not be allowed to continue foran hour. Already the bands of despera- does calling themselves State militia are com- mitting wrongs upon the people and the officers of the State. Baxter's militia and Brooks’ militia are equally obnoxious if the peace is broken. Unless order is at once restored and the right of one of the claimants to be Governor conceded the President cannot longer hesitate in his duty. Federal interference and military Governor are better than civil war between the two rivals to the governorship. The first duty is to give Arkansas peace and a peaceful ad- ministration ot the law, and though it is to be deplored that any necessity exists for the exer- cise of so much power it is better to exercise it in the beginning, and so put the State ina fair way of recovering its hold upon self-gov- ernment through the ballot box than to delay. it tilla condition of chronic anarchy is fast- ened upon the people worse than in any of the so-called States of the Mexican Republic, State Elections This Summer Fall. Several State elections will occur this year, and already speculations as to the results are indulged in. Oregon, on June 1, will lead off, with four tickets in the field—viz., the repub- lican, democratic, farmers’ and temperance. The State is a democratic one, but with such a breaking up of parties into four tickets it is doubtful whether the democrats will reap any substantial benefits or the result be of any great significance as an expression of the pop- ular sentiment of the country. North Caro- lina, which has republican State officers and a democratic Legislature, will record its verdict in August. The last Legislature, by refusing to enlarge the educational facilities of the State, has alienated many voters from the democ- racy, but the democratic papers of the State appear sanguine of winning a victory never- theless, as the contest is likely to be confined to the two leading political parties, with the liberals united with the democrats. A few days after Kentucky will hold its election for State officers, and will, no doubt, give an increased democratic majority. In Sep- tember Maine and Vermont elect State officers, and will probably undergo but little political change. Then will follow New York, and later Illinois and other States, in which the grangers will, no doubt, have something to say. In In- diana the farmers are preparing to nominate ® separate ticket, and present indications are that their example will be followed by those of Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and Min- nesota. Spzepy anp Spzcirat Lecrstation.—One of the evils of our system of speedy and special legislation was shown in the Senate on Mon- day in a little speech made by Mr. Morrill, of Vermont. Mr. Morrill showed how a corpora- tion called the Washington Market Company obtained a valuable franchise from the govern- ment; how in consideration of this franchise it ugreed to perform certain acts, and how it avoided the performance of these acts by hav- ing a surreptitious and inexplicable amend- ment passed, which Mr. Morrill did not sup- pose five men in either House of Congress un- derstood. Mr. Morrill proposes that the com- pany be investigated to see whether or not it has forfeited ite charter. It seems to us that legislation should beso guarded in Washington that these mysterious amendments could not be passed. What is the use of a committee or of a debate if the science of legislative de- pcneerengr ym ya Money for | New Phases of the Amarchy in Ar- ception has been brought to euch « perftetion that a fraud cannot be detected until too late? It would be interesting to know who are the corporators and officers of this ingenious company. Mr. Washburne and the Treasury De- partment. Tt has been clear for some time that a new man in the Treasury Department'was a prime necessity from every point of view, and now we hear that this man is to be Mr. Washburne, the present Minister to France—if that gen- tleman will accept the place. He certainly has a pleasanter position where heis. To give up the comparative elysium of a first class diplomatic post at Paris for the hurly-burly of Washington and the intrigue and jobbery of the Treasury Department would not be to act on ordinary human inclinations, even though the change involves the temptation, in the Political hierarchy, of a Cabinet office. But Mr. Washburne is not the man to act on in- clination merely or from the impulse of a taste for quiet and ease, as his career at Paris has shown. His service abroad has given him @ national reputation, and he was distin- guished in Congress for his energetic defence of the public purse from many a would-be plunderer years before he went away. If he were in the Treasury Department we feel toler- ably certain he would never sign contracts or other important papers as a matter of routine and without looking at them. He would not send checks, made payable to the Secretary of the Treasury, to be divided with outsiders, without good evidence that they had some claim. In fact, if Mr. Washburne were Secretary of tho Treasury we do not believe that important department would be managed in any great degree by any other person. All these reasons are in favor of the mooted nomination. Nobody, so far as we are aware, knows what Mr. Washburne’s views are as to inflation, nor does it seem that this point is important, since inflation is perhaps effectually scotched, if not killed. Our Min- ister to France, moreover, is a gentleman with brains enough toaccommodate himself to the financial facts and likely to carry out with vigor the policy that the people sustain— not a wrong-headed person, like too many official magnates, to.force some crotchet of his own and complain of the obstinate stupidity of the whole country. Altogether, we think the President could do very well to go to Paris for a Secretary of the Treasury. Strikes and the Price of Coal and Iron’ in England. The recent strike of the miners in England, together witha number of previous strikes among that class of laborers and iron workers, has caused an advance in the price of both coal and iron. No more’ serious blow could be given to the most important branch of British industry, as far as the effect goes. In fact, the combinations of workmen generally, the movement of the agricultural laborers for increased wages lately and the growth of co- operative associations are tending to increase the cost of production and the market value of materials and produce. The success of England in monopolizing to a great extent the markets of the world depended greatly upon low wages, That country will find it more difficult to maintain its commanding position in this respect as wages increase and mining becomes more expensive. Yet there is no way of averting the demands and improvement of the working classes. This state of things is giving a great deal of uneasiness to the capi- talists and government of England. It is a favorable time for those interested in mining and manufacturing in the United States to in- crease their operations and to invite the skilled laborers of England to emigrate to this country. Capital Moving. The irrepressible Reavis and his friends are striving to have the national capital removed to Peoria or Alton or Duluth or St. Louis or some such lake and prairie settlement in the West. A convention is to be held on the subject in October. There is no harm in the convention if the delegates only have money enough for expenses. Tho place for the capital is New York. Let the new Congress Hall be built in Central Park, with the public buildings all around. By that time we shall have rapid transit and fine drives, and our statesmen when off duty will have the opera and Wallack’s and Daly’s and other first class places of amusement. Rocky Mountain members will appreciate ‘Humpty Dumpty” and the minstrels, while religious statesmen will enjoy Beecher’s church, where religion is of a joyous character, or St. Stephen’s, where it is more in the way of penance, or Frothingham’s, where it is still of an indefinite character. We would not have the Washington Board of Public Works, al- though we havea somewhat stupendous record in that direction; but we have a partnership of venerable statesmen, going back to the time of the Revolution, still bloom- ing in centennial sprightliness and activity. Moreover we have the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to, Animals, whose ever honored President would see that the debates were briefer than at present as an act of mercy. Then there is our troupe of little “tyrants”—Van Nort, Foley, Green and the others, For inducements and opportu- nities New York is ten thousand times more at- tractive than any town in the West. Let our Congressmen try the metropolis for a winter and see what the vote on the capital question would be. “Comixa Down to Harpran.’’—One of the most expressive phrases in our common forms of speech comes from California. When the miner is through with gravel and clay and the extraneous deposits which burden the mine, and reaches the rock in which the gold is imbedded, he says he has ‘‘come down to hardpan.” So the phrase has passed into our common speech. What we see in Wall street now is a general ‘‘coming down to hardpan.” Stocks fall in value, not because their real value has diminished, but because all along they have ranged at false and unnatural values. We have had, and we have now, a multitude of stocks that represent a fictitious value. ‘They have been ‘‘watered,” they have been issued improperly, their values have been nominal A season of speculation and un- wholesome dealings with the currency has stimulated them into a false value. If infla- tion had become a settled policy they would have gone still higher. But they had to fall some time or another, for in Wall street, as in other parts of the world, falsehood myst fall Land Grants Again. We had hoped that among the wise lessons recently learned by Congress was the folly of all land grant legislation. It seems to be voted to,a company without any value re- eeived or any guarantee that it would fulfil its contract. Another company received an immense grant and cannot pay its interest on its bonds. The mature judgment of our wisest men is that the whole system of land. grants was based upon a mistaken idea of the relations between the general government and internal public improvements. The theory accepted in the beginning, when the repub- lican party laid down the plank in its plat- form in favor of a railway to the Pacific, was that the building of a railway through waste lands, like those composing the vast inland plains of the Continent, would add largely to the value of the remaining lands, and that the practical effect of the land grants would be to give our Western domains a value they never possessed, and which they would not possess without these railways. Consequently the granting of land for railway building was really giving value to valueless acres. This was a captivating theory, but it was abused. We have no right to give these vast tracts of fertile acres to irresponsible corpora- tions, They are the heritage of our children, and when we endow railway companies with @8 many acres as are contained in countries as large as France we squander their heritage. It is, therefore, with regret that we observe the passage by the Senate of the bill to endow the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in Minne- sota. Of the particular merits of this road we know nothing. It proposes to ran in Minne- sota, a State that has already been richly endowed by the government in the way of lands. Mr, Stevenson, of Kentucky, ex- pressed the feeling of the country when he said public opinion was opposed to “‘grant- ing amounts of land twice as much as one whole State in the Union.” Notwithstand- ing this pregnant statement of the case, and the opposition of Senators like Thurman and Sherman, the grant was passed. We are pained to see in the list of those who voted in its favor men like Frelinghuysen and the new Senator from Massachusetts, Mr. Wash- burn. We trust the House will defeat the bill, and in doing so strike down this land grant principle. It was only the other day we hada discussion on economy. Economy meant reducing the salaries of a few clerks. But Senators who will strain over the wages of a few clerks will permit irresponsible corpora- tions to swallow an ‘amount of land twice as much as one whole State in the Union.” A Promising Nest. The Grand Jury of the General Sessions on the 29th of April last made a presentment of their views regarding the evidence laid before them in support of certain charges against the Commissioners of Charities and Correo- tion. The Grand Jury find that the supplies for the department for the last year have been purchased ‘‘ina manner at once wasteful, ex- travagant, leading directly to corruption, and which, in the interest of the reputation of the Commissioners as well as of the city of New York, should be at once reformed.” This is a Pecksniffian way of putting the facts, but it is enough to demand an immediate change in the Commission by the Mayor and Governor, in accordance with the provisions of the charter. Itis notorious that the Department of Oharities and Correction is “‘honeycombed with corruption,” and we have no doubt that there is as much rascality to be unearthed in that Commission as ever there was in the Commission under the old Tammany rule, If Mayor Havemeyer should neglect to perform his clear duty on this presentment of the Grand Jury and send the names of the Com- missioners to the Governor for removal, the Commissioners of Accounts should enter the Department of Charities and Correction and give it an overhauling. The “reform” gov- ernment at present promises to turn out but little, if any, better than the infamous rule it displaced. Retzarous Processtons.—As we are coming into the summer, and shall probably have our own share of religious festivals, with the Orange parade on July 12, it may be well to recall an extract from some freshly discovered letters of Frederick the Great, recently pub- lished in o German paper. It seems that certain Catholics in the town of Cleves, while on their way in procession to 9 shrine of the Virgin, permitted their devotional zeal to vent itself on a Protestant. The King wrote about it as follows: —“I have heard of the disturb- ance caused by your last procession. If you wish to continue these ridiculous promenadea T advise you not to insult any one belonging to a different religion, as otherwise I shall be compelled to put a stop to such follies and the guilty will be severely punished."’ This is the true spirit. At the same time it would be a matter of rejoicing to us if this whole busi- ness of religious and party processions were suppressed by the common consent and com- mon sense of our people. A New Pormrt.—The men of science m Europe are beginning to discuss the uses of alcohol. Sir Henry Thompson, the champion of the intense idea of cremation, has advanced the opinion that even as 2 medicine or a compo- nent part of medicine alcohol does more harm than good. Experiments show that its use lowers the temperature and stimulates without strengthening the action of the heart. Another physician declares that in liver complaints water is much better than alcohol, while a leading surgeon in the British army strongly condemns as most injurious the practice of serving grog to soldiers and sailors. This is the most effective form the temperance discus- sion has as yet assumed. Only destroy the usefulness of alcohol or its assumed usefal- ess as a stimulating beverage or jnedicine.